Mars Hill pastor: ‘Mormonism is a cult’

Mars Hill Church Pastor Mark Driscoll is using Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a reason to speak out against Mormonism.

The controversial Seattle pastor posted a long online message to his massive congregation Tuesday, saying the Mormon faith a cult that is “antithetical to Christianity.”

Driscoll wrote:

The danger facing the Christian church is always to capitulate to culture. As Mormonism becomes more culturally acceptable, the temptation will be to make Mormonism more acceptable to Christians as well. This can’t happen if the Church is to preserve its witness in the world to the true triune God of the Bible as worshiped by Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians alike.

Many Mormons are good neighbors, friends, and fellow citizens. But, we cannot go so far as to call them brothers and sisters in a common faith. To do so is to not only confuse real Christians, but to also diminish the importance of lovingly speaking with Mormons about the errors of their belief in hopes of seeing them come to know the real God of the Bible and avoiding eternal damnation for worshipping a false god.

This isn’t the first time that Driscoll jumped into the debate about Romney and his faith.

The Christian Post reported in July that Driscoll said in an interview that he could understand the struggle Christians would have considering Romney for president. “He supports our values; he doesn’t worship our God.”

His statement about Mormonism comes just days after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a massive marketing campaign in Seattle in an effort to make the faith better understood. Read more here: “‘I’m a Mormon’ campaign aims to change Seattle.”

A supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s brought Mormonism to the front of the race for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this month. The Rev. Robert Jeffress, the minister at a powerful Baptist church in Dallas, called Mormonism a “cult” at the Value Voters Summit in early October.